🍍 The best part: the writers sitting around and planning out "What would episode 1 of season 8 be like?"🍍 The worst part: they told us to "stick around after the credits for a roundtable discussion" and it was mostly them talking about details of CBS archival practices

🍍 The actor who plays Garak says that he was playing him as gay, and very much into Bashir🍍 Behr says he should have pushed for making that explicit and playing Garak/Bashir as a romance🍍 They talk about how Rejoined was good, but not enough to credit them with a "checkmark" in the sexual identity category of representation (they do not mention Chimera, which was even better imo)

🍍 They briefly discussed what they might do with Section 31 if they had a full season, and it's like the DS9 writers are the only people in the universe who understand that Section 31 is supposed to be an actual villain and a cautionary tale, not just "cool Starfleet with leather gear"

🍍 There was some funny shade thrown on the actor who plays Dukat—"He's not the sort of actor who would normally be the leading man type, you know? But then we put a lot of make-up on him and he was passable"

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